Saskatchewan is nudging closer to 100,000 vaccines being administered. Sunday’s report from the government on COVID-19 statistics and vaccine delivery stated an additional 1,428 doses of COVID-19. . .
Yukon government too slow on vaccine rollout, opposition says
Yukon Party leader Currie Dixon says the Liberal government hasn t delivered on a promise to roll out the Moderna vaccine as quickly as possible.
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Health minister says she expects 500 of 7,200 doses to be administered by week s end
Posted: Jan 09, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 9
Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon speaks to reporters Dec. 22, 2020. Dixon says the Yukon government hasn t fulfilled its promises on the COVID-19 rollout.(Chris Windeyer/CBC)
Yukon Party leader Currie Dixon says the territorial government is taking too long to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dixon said Friday the Liberal government hasn t delivered on a promise to have the Moderna vaccine in the territory within two days of approval. And he said Yukon failed to convince the federal government to release all the territory s doses at once.
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Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical adviser at Health Canada, speaks during a press conference to announce that Health Canada has authorized the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Kawai January 08, 2021 - 2:41 PM
OTTAWA - Federal procurement minister Anita Anand says Canada will do whatever it takes to get more vaccine doses delivered to Canada faster but there hasn t yet been any change to the number of doses Canada is expecting to receive this winter and approvals for additional vaccines are still at least several weeks away.